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There are over 100,000 unsolved murder cases in America. Each one is called a cold case, and only one percent are ever solved.

This is one of those rare cases. For someone to murder a law enforcement officer, you feel like nobody's safe.

This murder was the oldest unsolved homicide of a police officer in the nation.

There was talk on the street that it was a drug-related hit.

I was 26 years old.

My first homicide is a friend and a boss.

We have to get the murder weapon.

This wasn't looking for a needle in haystack.

This was a needle in the ocean.. This was a needle in the ocean.

When an investigation runs out of Leeds, it becomes a cold case. Years pass and hope fades.

But for the families of the victims, these cases are never cold. The truth takes time. It's February 1981 in Marietta, Ohio.

Patricia Clark is watching a basketball game with her husband Joe, who works for the Washington

County Sheriff's Department. When he gets up to go to the kitchen, Patricia hears what sounds like an

explosion. She finds Joe collapsed on the floor from what she thinks is a heart attack. The shocking

truth would take 33 years to uncover. Catherine Reese is Joe Clark's stepdaughter.

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